Informal CODEV/COHAFA meeting 24-25 July 2017, Tallinn, Estonia Volker Hauck/ ECDPM (with thanks to UN-OCHA and Cell for Coordination and Liaison (CCL) for sharing slides)

1. Civil-military coordination in the
Lake Chad region (case)
Volker Hauck/ ECDPM
(with thanks to UN-OCHA and Cell for Coordination
and Liaison (CCL) for sharing slides)
Informal CODEV/COHAFA meeting
24-25 July 2017, Tallinn, Estonia

2. • Violence (~20,000 Killed),
Significant numbers
enslaved/pressed into service,
famine)
• 1.8 million IDP’s in Nigeria (UN
Report)/ total displaced: 2.7 million
• 8.5 million in need of humanitarian
assistance (UN Report)
• 276 Chibok school girls, but
~thousands of boys kidnapped
• Region is poorer today, schools
closed, development on hold
Summary of Boko Haram (BH) atrocities

3. Région du lac Tchad
Activités militaires Opération « Rawan
Kada »,Une
opération qui vise à
attaquer les groupes
armés dans leurs
zones de repli.
(ratissage)Les
opérations devraient
se dérouler au
Nigéria, le long des
frontières avec le
Niger, le Cameroun et
dans les îles

4. Evolution of BH: 2015-2017
Janvier 2015 Juillet 2017
ZONE D’INFLUENCE
DE AL BARNAWI
(ISWAP)
ZONE D’INFLUENCE
DE SHEKAU
ZONE D’INFLUENCE
DE BH

5. Lake ChadKomadougou River
Sambisa ForestMandara Mountains
Difficult terrain/ big distances

6. EU engagement in Lake Chad region
INSTITUTIONAL
ARRANGMENTS
• EU Del. (Chad; Niger;
Nigeria; Cameroon)
• ECHO offices (4x)
• EU MS embassies (F&D)
• Hum. NGOs (EU)
• Dev. NGOs (EU)
• French army (Barkhane)
INSTRUMENTS/
FUNDING
• EU Trust Fund
• African Peace Facility
• RIPs (2x) and NIPs (4x)
• IcSP/ EIDHR/ CSO-LA
• EU MS dev. & hum.
support (e.g., GIZ)
• EU MS military support
(France & UK)

7. 3
Activités humanitaires

8. Civil-military coordination
• CMCoord (“Platforme Civilo-Militaire”)
• Follows a strategy of civil-military coexistence
• Chair: UN-OCHA
• Three structures:
– CMCoord Strategic Platform (4x per year)
– CMCoord Operational Platform ((2x per month)
– CMCoord Terrain Platform (only 1 out of 4 sectors
operational)

9. CMCoord: participants
CMCoord
Humanitarian
Coordinator
(OCHA)
ECHO/ UN/
ICRC/ NGOs
Embassies
(USA & F)
Int. Military
actors (CLL &
Barkhane)
Regional
Military
actors (Chad
& MNJTF)

10. CMCoord: principal tasks
• Establishing a regular dialogue between civil and
military actors at strategic and operational levels
• Aims: promote humanitarian principles; civil
protection; address incoherence of actions
• Regular exchange of information about security
• Discuss humanitarian access; use of armed escorts
• Clarifying roles of various military actors
• Next steps: Stabilisation Conference => promoting
resilience & collaboration with development actors

11. Carte d’accès humanitaire dans la région du lac Tchad
Pb d’accès
humanitaire
Présence
militaire
Accès
humanitaire
restreint :
combats en
cours
Zones
recommandées
avec escortes
armées (UN)
Madai
BOL
Bagasola
Liwa
Daboua
Axes lacustres
avec
escortes(UN)

12. A long-term conflict and a tedious
peace process ahead of all ...
Thank you
Source: Florian Plaucheur/AFP